Dumping-wagon.



' Patented Sept. 23, 902. W. LEONHARDT. DUMPING WAGON.

(Application filed Oct. 4, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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No. 709,751 Patented Sept. 23, mm.

W. LEONHARDT. v DUMPING WAGON.

(Application filed Oct. 4, 1901.)

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NITED STATS WILLIAM LEONHARDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,715, dated September 23, 1902.

Application filed October 4, 1901. Serial No. 77,525. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM LEONHARDT, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Dumping-\Vagons, of which the following is a specification.

In the description of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the principal parts of the improved d limping-wagon. Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1, except that the rear end of the wagon is broken away and the running-gear omitted. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of Fig. 1, taken on the dotted line a; wand looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 is the truck of the wagon, comprising the angle-iron bars 2, upon the horizontal flanges 3 of which reststhebody,hereinafterdescribed. Theobject in substituting angle-irons for the solid rectangular sills commonly used is to diininish the height of the body from the ground Without reducing the strength of the bed. The body 4 is hinged at 5 to the angle-irons 2 in order that it may be dumped, and to increase the angle of the body when it is tilted its rear end is made. angular with reference to the remaining portion, as shown in Fig. 1. The means whereby the body is dumped consist as follows: On one of the angle-irons 2 is erected a standard 7, and to the upper end of this standard is hinged the hand-lever 9. Near the bottom of the said standard is fulcrumed the cross-lever 10, having one of its ends connected by the pitman 11 to a stud 12, projecting from the side of the body. The other end of the cross-lever 10 is united by a pitman 13 to the hand-lever 9 about midway of its length. By bearing down on the end of the hand-lever 9. the front end of the wagonbody is elevated and its contents dumped. In case the load is too heavy to be dumped with the leverage furnished bythe combination of levers and pitrnen shown, an extension-bar (not illustrated) is attached to the end of the said hand-lever to lengthen it.

14: is a flexible cover for the body 4 of the wagon, consisting, preferably, of a piece of stout canvas with one end secured to a roller 15, the gudgeons of which are supported in brackets 16. The other end of the cover is shod with the angle-iron 17 and furnished with the strip 19, which is secured to its under side and provided with lips 20, which are turned down and extend over the edges of the body, as shown in Fig. This strip serves to prevent the free end of the cover becoming laterally displaced. On the outside ofthe cover and near its free end are clips 22, to which the ends of a wire rope 23 are connected. These ropes, beginning at Z, lead over the idle pulleys 24, thence down and around the winding-pulleys 26, thence over the idle pulleys 27, and thence returning to the tight ening-eyebolts 2.). All of the said pulleys and the winding-ropes are exterior ofthe wagonbody, and they do not, therefore, come into contact with its contents. The shafts of the Winding-pulley 26 and the roller 15 at one or both sides of the wagon are made polygonal and so adapted for the attachment thereto of a winding crank-handle. (Not shown.) Before loading the wagon the flexible cover is drawn back or Wound on the roller 15, which exposes the entire interior of the body. When the wagon is loaded, the shaft of the winding'pulley 2b is rotated in the proper direction to draw the free end of the cover along the body and so close it, and this condition may be maintained until the contents of the wagon are dnm ped,when the cover is rewound on the roller 15.

The wagon described is well adapted for the collection of garbage and refuse materials from which arise unpleasant odors and for ashes which are liable to be scattered by the wind.

I claim as my in vention 1. In a wagon, the body thereof provided with a roller having a flexible cover which is wound thereon, the free end of the said cover being shod and provided with a strip with its ends turned down to form lips which engage with the edge of the body and serve to prevent lateral displacement of the cover, substantially as specified.

2. In a dumping-Wagon, the sills thereof at l of the body, and another pitman which unites one side of the wagon provided with a standthe other end of the said cross-lever to the ard, and combined With a hand-lever pivot- I said hand-lever, substantially as specified. 10

ed to the upper end of the said standard, a WILLIAM LEONHARDT. 5 cross-lever pivoted to near the bottom of the \Vitnesses:

said standard, a pitman to connect one end GEO. E. TAYLOR,

of the said cross-lever to a stud on the side ESTEP T. GOTT. 

